Because they chose words and sounds purely based on whether they sounded pretty.

Ignore me. This thought was based on false information that I neglected to fact check 😔 learned my lesson there! Apologies for any hard feelings!

Source of correction: a literal linguist 🤦‍♂️

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    … as opposed to English, which was carefully crafted by experts scientifically putting each word in exactly the right place and deriving the most consistently logical system of orthography.